SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Friday constituted a high­ level committee, led by Russian ambassador Alexander M Kadakin, to look into the functioning of the International Roerich Memorial Trust at Naggar village in Kullu. Dhumal was presiding over the 16th meeting of the trust. Besides Kadakin, the ...

DHARAMSALA: The state governments of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have cleared decks for installing aerial rope­ way linking Sikh's historic town, Anandpur Sahib to the religious shrine of Hindus at Naina Devi. The memorandum of understanding between the two states for the ropeway, which will reduce the travel time by ...

SHIMLA: With Preity Zinta becoming the face of tourism and environment in the state, she will now be motivating world renowned personalities and entrepreneurs to visit and invest in tourism in Himachal. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal informed on Tuesday that the actor has given her consent in principle to become, ...

JANDA (KANGRA): Retirement age for faculty in medical institutions, controlled by the Centre would soon be raised to 70 years from the current 65, Union health minister Ghulam, Nabi Azad said here on Wednesday. He was addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of a super specialty hospital on ...

DHARAMSALA: It was a proud moment for women folk in the state when an all-women battalion of the India Reserve Battalion (IRB) presented an impressive march past in the dusty ground of the 2nd IRB at Sakoh village. Himachal Pradesh, on Friday, became the only state in north India to ...

SHIMLA: Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Thursday informed the House that the state government would effectively take up the issue of channelisation of the 2.5 km stretch of Swim River in Una district with the Punjab government. Replying to a question by Congress member Mukesh Agnihotri during the Question Hour, ...

SHIMLA: Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Wednesday introduced the Himachal Pradesh Prohibition of Cow Slaughter (Amendment) Bill, 2010. Introducing the Bill, he said that even though the HP Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act, 1979, prohibited cow slaughter and its progeny within the state, there was no provision to check the ...

SHIMLA: Registration of an FIR against Subhash Manglet, a Congress MLA from Chopal, for allegedly intimidating a Sub Divisional Magistrate, rocked the-State Assembly on Tuesday. Led by Congress Legislature Party leader Vidya Stokes, the Congress members came to the well of the House to lodge their protest on the issue. They ...

KULLU: A descendant of the erst­ while Kullu royal family in Himachal Pradesh was killed in a road accident near Noida in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, sending the hill town in a state of shock. Abhishek Singh, 25, elder son of a former state education minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party ...

BILASPUR: The Congress and CPI, on Thursday, demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and that of Virender Kashyap as member Parliament over the CD expose. Both the parties have demanded that the CBI investigate even as the BJP leaders claim that the CDs were conspired by detractors to ...